A prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service

Usage examples of invocation.

Then, having issued a solemn invocation of the Supreme Being, he stepped down from the platform to a table at the front of the chamber, where Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth administered the oath of office, Adams energetically repeating the words.

The blacks were frothing crazy now, shaking and tearing at their chains and shrieking the name of Amra like an invocation.

I assumed were the Bacchic versions of invocation, homily, benediction and so on.

Then the litanies of the ritual were unfolded, the invocation to all the Saints, the flight of the Kyrie Eleison, calling Heaven to the aid of miserable humanity, mounting each time with great outbursts, like the fume of incense.

The original German song itself has come down to American and English children, and enthusiastic folklorists see in it a relic of the ancient tree worship and an invocation of Frau Holda, the goddess of love and spring of our Teutonic ancestors.

In that heart-stopping ululation of the blood trill, the invocation to violence that the heart of the African warrior cannot resist, the sound struck the jostling press of Gallas like a whip, stroke and their bodies convulsed and their voices rose in an answering blood roar.

Also engraved in minute detail were an invocation in Greek and the names of Oroiouth, Iao, and Yahweh.

Reform rabbi to give a nonsectarian invocation at a high school graduation ceremony on the perfectly plausible grounds that Rhode Island was trying to establish Reform Judaism as the official state religion.

With fervor, she gave herself also to her pagan invocations to those spirits of Zootheism and personified elements of Nature, so real even to the modern Cherokee, esteemed so potent in the ordering of human affairs.

In many of the circles I have conducted there have been people of many religions and faiths brought together by the love of God the Father, worshipping Him in the communion of a spiritual circle, blessed by the prayers and invocations to Him.

Kneeling beneath it, holding up his offering, the halfgod intoned a formal invocation to the goddess.

Dragonfly, he stopped to look over the hundreds of messages, invocations, and pleas written on wooden tags and hung from the message board near the massive gate.

Sobrinini to wring her withered hands and mutter invocations to her gods.

But I, what with my heavy burden and long journy, did nothing differ from a dead asse : wherfore I determined with my self to seek some civil remedy, and by invocation of the name of the prince of the country to be delivered from so many miseries : and on a time I passed through a great faire, I came among a multitude of Greeks, and I thought to call upon the renowned name of the Emperor and say, O Cesar, and cried out aloud O, but Cesar I could in no wise pronounce.

The book has been put together in recent times, and takes the reader through the preliminary consecration, invocations and introductory ceremonies, the rise and progress of the mutual love of Radha and K.